TR:
Once again, as I did in beating your economic theories to a pulp I with all humility must do likewise to your Texas ordhestral theories:
Behold oh man of leather boots and little cutlter, the list:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article5201584.ece
As most Texans with a post secodary school edcuation will be able to discern, the Cleveland Orchestra is rated as the 5 th best in the world. Sadly, the Houston and Dallas ensemles failed to make the list. How blue...........
Maybe if they changed their programing from an all Sousa and Waylon Jennings to a little more Mozarrt or Bach, soome of the judges may take notice. Ahh just a suggesttion from a state which really has no good bands.
Well off to see Berlioz tomorrow. Ta ta.
Eddie
Quite hilarious, such ill-concocted pretensions on the fine arts delivered by a lawyer from the cultural dust-bin of Ohio. I have a different opinion, it goes like this: shut up.
I mentioned this to Tommy Lee Jones last night. We took his private jet (mine was undergoing "unscheduled maintenance " and I shall flog yet another servant upon my return!) flying into Ft. Worth from his ranch in Van Horn. Tommy Lee, a Texan not all that unusual (Havard 1969, cum laude with a degree in English) considering his interest in cattle, land and fine arts--we attended a show at the Kimbell Art Museum, marvelling once more the cycloid-vaulted ceilings giving such light to the collections that it was indeed no wonder that Louis Kahn's desgin is regarded by many as finest of all 20th-century museum designs.
Nearby is the justly renown Amon Carter Museum, with it's holding of signature works by Bierstadt, Eakins, Mary Cassatt, O?Keeffe, Lewis Hine, Grant Wood Stuart Davis, Audubon and more.
A singer from the Dallas opera performed "Quel sangue versato" from the upcoming production of "Roberto Devereux" at the museum festivities. She spoke of collaborating with Ben Stevenson of the Houston Ballet. He turned that institution into an internationally acclaimed company.
Can you find even a nationally acclaimed ballet in Ohio? That was rhetorical by the way, so if you actually sat there and answered "yes, yes I can", I hate to break this to you but you?re an idiot. And let's not even get to speaking of opera houses of similar caliber. Or museums the like of the Dallas Museum of Art, or Houston's Menil Collection (which contains, among many treasures, the only Byzantine Chapel Fresco in the new world).
or even down to lesser, but no less wonderful places, like Miss Ima Hogg's
Bayou Bend collection of decorative arts and antiques.
In Austin here, the Ransom Center holds tens of millions of literary and cultural artifacts from all over US and Europe. Scholars from around the world arrive daily to consult their collections. Many of the fine Texas authors do too. Down the street is the University of Texas School of Law, generally rated among the top 15 in the US.
Hang out at these places, and you won't find the crowd you see at Ohio State games--a fellow in seat next to you mentioning that he's been been married three times and still has the same in-laws.
"Who is this petty and captious Eddie you speak of" asked Tommy Lee. I answered thus:
A low-bred, largely self-taught person of mediocre literary attainments who somehow contrived an education into Law. He has managed to retain a position as solicitor by a happy combination of defects, natural and acquired: pedantry frequently expressed as satire with little wit or spirit. All strains of political sophistry and personal calumny are employed as he sneers his equals in low birth and educational pretensions, showing contempt by reducing any and all to what he was once himself--a man without the ordinary advantages of learning, taste and magnanimity. He hurls his meagre observations ex cathedr? at everyone with the self-conceit and self-importance of a country schoolmaster, discovering as little tact, in angry and insulting exchanges--all the while taking an odious pride and pleasure in this sort of petty warfare.
"That's a pretty harsh criticism, seemingly as illiberal as Eddie himself"
Well, as Eddie assumes a place to say what he pleases of others, I might be allowed to speak truth of him!
"Mightn't you worry he'll respond with equal invective and damning truth?"
Eddie wouldn't dare
